The Biopolitics of Feeling : Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century /

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In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility--the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences--to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and...

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Autor principal: Schuller, Kyla, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sex role.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Literature and science.
Eugenics in literature.
Emotions in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Litterature et sciences > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Eugenisme dans la litterature > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Literature and science > United States > History > 19th century.
Sex role > History > 19th century.
Eugenics in literature > History > 19th century.
Emotions in literature > History > 19th century.
Sentimentalism in literature > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Sentimental biopower
  • Taxonomies of feeling: sensation and sentiment in evolutionary race science
  • Body as text, race as palimpsest: Frances E.W. Harper and black feminist biopolitics
  • Vaginal impressions: gyno-neurology and the racial origins of sexual difference
  • Incremental life: biophilanthropy and the child migrants of the lower east side
  • From impressibility to interactionism: W.E.B. du Bois, black eugenics, and the struggle
  • Against genetic determinisms
  • Epilogue: The afterlives of impressibility.

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